Last year, Emmanuel Macron honored the memory of Jacques Chirac, who died on September 26, 2019, and paid tribute to Georges Pompidou, forty years after his election.
This year he celebrated the year of de Gaulle.
And next year, he wanted to mark the anniversary of the election of François Mitterrand, May 10, 1981. But, if he shares with Nicolas Sarkozy a hyperactive voluntarism, of all his predecessors, it is from Valéry Giscard d 'Estaing ultimately that Macron is the closest.
By its youth and its claim to modernity;
through a personalized practice of power;
by a resolutely European tropism;
and by ambition - the dream?
- a political recomposition by going beyond traditional divisions.
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